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MIT artist Joan Jonas wins Kyoto Prize
The honors keep coming for artist Joan Jonas, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
June 14, 2018
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Manufacturing Michief: Pedro Reyes with Torry Bend
I first came across Pedro Reyes’s work while researching performance and social activism.
June 5, 2018
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Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Infuses Bach’s ‘Sonatas & Partitas’ With Joy
Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces.
May 29, 2018
https://www.broadwayworld.com/
VIDEO: Watch Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in Conversation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Watch a video of Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in conversation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on April 14, 2018.
May 23, 2018
Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks
The lettuce-winnowing is a giveaway.
May 22, 2018
https://www.thesouthernsounding.com/
Track Premiere: Occurrence – “All of Your Devils”
The work of New York-based band Occurrence exists outside any currents fashions or claimable trends — its patterns and rhythms reject easy recognition in favor of something far more impressionistic.
May 13, 2018
http://www.artforum.com
Gordon Hall
Gordon Hall discusses The Number of Inches Between Them at the List Center.
May 11, 2018
http://tech.mit.edu
Citizen Science
Aerocene project hopes to put research into the hands of citizens.
May 3, 2018
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Five things to do, April 30-May 6
The Beautiful Brain exhibit, Lexington Tattoo and Muster, Pugs Take Boston, and more.
April 27, 2018
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New ‘Manufacturing Mischief’ features Chomsky, Rand, and Tiny Trump
It’s Noam Chomsky vs. Ayn Rand in a new show from multimedia artist Pedro Reyes — and just to be clear, it’s a comedy, and they’re puppets.
April 24, 2018
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Audra McDonald honored by MIT
If something scares me, I have to do it,” says renowned actress and singer Audra McDonald in a short video that preceded her on-stage interview on Saturday at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has chosen McDonald as the recipient of … Continued
April 19, 2018
Audra McDonald. Symphony Hall, Boston. April 13, 2018
The concert tipped off something of a special weekend for McDonald, who followed it on Saturday night by being honored with this year’s 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
April 17, 2018
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Audra McDonald appears at MIT discussion, gala
As part of Audra McDonald’s duties as winner of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, the Broadway great — can you believe she’s won six Tony Awards? — sat down with Oskar Eustis at MIT’s Huntington Hall over the weekend.
April 16, 2018
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Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show
“Manufacturing Mischief,” which will have its premiere run on April 26 and 27 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts a mini-Chomsky onstage alongside Elon Musk, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx.
April 16, 2018
http://www.nytimes.com/
How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall
Taking it all in with a digital recorder and high-end binaural microphones one day in February was the composer Tod Machover, who writes symphonies about cities around the world and brings some of their most characteristic sounds into the concert … Continued
April 9, 2018
Audra McDonald honored with artist residency at MIT
With her incandescent soprano, Audra McDonald is usually the one doing the dazzling. But the Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress says it was she who was awestruck by the talent she encountered on recent visits to the … Continued
April 5, 2018
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/
Free Things to Do in Boston, April 2018
Performing the Present: Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in Conversation
March 30, 2018
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Young Artist Who Grew Up to Invent Neuroscience
Many creative scientists have artistic inclinations. The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, are a beautiful example.
March 30, 2018
http://philly.com
Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment
Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
March 29, 2018
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With György Kepes, photographs as experiments
From the start, photography has been binary.
March 28, 2018
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‘Islandborn’ taps the immigrant imagination
author junot díaz discusses debut children’s book
March 28, 2018
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At MIT, Mouse on Mars immerses listeners in ‘surround sound on steroids’
Whether through his work as one half of German electronic music duo Mouse on Mars or through his 2016-17 tenure as an MIT guest lecturer, Jan St. Werner has spent the better part of the past 25 years exploring the … Continued
March 22, 2018
https://www.broadwayworld.com/
MIT Premieres Pedro Reyes’ Puppet Play with Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Tiny Trump
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce the world premiere of Manufacturing Mischief, a new satirical play by Pedro Reyes that features puppet characters based on Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk and “Tiny Trump.”
March 21, 2018
http://www.nytimes.com/
Joan Jonas Endures With Her Strange and Entrancing Rituals
The American artist Joan Jonas stood before an enthusiastic audience in London late on Friday and re-enacted excerpts from some of her performances.
March 21, 2018
http://www.classical-scene.com
Schubert Feeds the Hungry
Sunday’s Music for Food concert in MIT’s Killian Hall offered three contrasting chamber works within its theme of the year: “Schubert’s Vienna/Our Boston.”
March 20, 2018